The House in Which Nightmares Dwell 13.2

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The mediums were noisily preparing for their night out.

Naru remained in the base and looked over the data up till then.

"It suddenly increased... ..."

Last night there were eight spots with abnormal activities. Reiko complained that she saw someone's shadow, while Midori complained that she heard strange sounds. An unusual noise that appeared to be a rapping sound occurred about twenty times throughout the night, while a strange tremor that seemed to be a poltergeist occurred three times.

"What do you think?"

Naru called him behind his back. Lin was still facing the computer and answered with, 'No idea.'

"Are the inactive spirits relieving their tension? -- Or is this what Gene was talking about? I'm troubled about his judgement thereabouts."

"I wonder what that bad thing is."

Once again Lin answered this with, ‘No idea.'

"I wonder as well. - Though I don’t think that the spirits here are that strong.”

"Certainly... ..."

Will it still escalate from now on? Even so, with a truly powerful spirit, it's more often the case that they will resist rather than remain stagnant. When taking into account experiences in the past, it didn't seem like a particularly important thing.

"I think it's better if someone remained here after all."

Lin said. The four who would go perform the exorcism were Lin, Takigawa, John and Ayako.

"I don't want to scatter our forces as much as possible. I want to settle this in one go."

In reality, Naru himself wasn't satisfied even though he said that. The spirits here didn't seem menacing. He was nearly certain of that. However, nothing is absolute. And Midori and Reiko were here. They had to protect the interests of the client. If by any chance something happened to those two, in which case it's inexcusable to say he was made a mistake.

"I understand that, but... ..."

"The people who are possessed by Sekiguchi next door are more of a threat. -- I think they have the highest priority after all."

Naru leafed through the data. Didn't he overlook something? Was it okay to send out most of the people who were able to perform an exorcism?

"Even if the spirits here act somewhat violently, it's not out of malicious intent. Hara-san is here and so is Mai. Even if it were to escalate a little, we can probably hold out somehow for about one night."

While saying that, he couldn't help but feel that he was telling it to himself.

Lin exhaled lightly.

"I don't think it's careless, but. -- At any rate, I will do my best to return as soon as possible."

"Please do so."

"-- I'm telling you in advance just to be sure. Please don't forget about the promise to your father."

“About not using my PK, right? -- I know."

"If you do use it, I will force you to go back home whether you like it or not. Agreed?"

Naru shrugged his shoulders lightly.

"-- By the way, Lin?"

"Yes."

"Can you exorcise even from afar? This is the first time I heard about it."

"It’s possible that we can’t."

He quickly answered and Naru smiled bitterly.

"... ... You're surprisingly sly."

"Exorcism is probably impossible from a distance unless it’s a killing curse.”

"... ... And?"

"For the moment we'll go outside and return at midnight. If that we can’t seal them from the outside, we'll think of a way of luring the Sasakura family out somehow."

Naru lightly shrugged his shoulders.

"I'll have Hirota-san check the house. I’ll try to get sleep as soon as possible."

"Please do so."

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